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... seen from the sea . Certainly Trebizond is best The sun had been risen an hour or two when we left the following day for Batum . The voyage from Trebizond to Batum was perhaps the pleasantest part of our whole journey by sea . The water ...
... seen from the sea . Certainly Trebizond is best The sun had been risen an hour or two when we left the following day for Batum . The voyage from Trebizond to Batum was perhaps the pleasantest part of our whole journey by sea . The water ...
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... seen a train before , thought the whole station - and the station at Batum is by no means a small one - was going to Tiflis , and accordingly arranged the luggage on one of the seats and made himself comfortable for a long journey in ...
... seen a train before , thought the whole station - and the station at Batum is by no means a small one - was going to Tiflis , and accordingly arranged the luggage on one of the seats and made himself comfortable for a long journey in ...
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... , far older than the gardens , are to be seen . In many places the jungle - covered hills have not yet been cleared , and here one can see the dense VEGETATION . 29 vegetation that abounds along the warm coast 28 TANGIER TO TIFLIS .
... , far older than the gardens , are to be seen . In many places the jungle - covered hills have not yet been cleared , and here one can see the dense VEGETATION . 29 vegetation that abounds along the warm coast 28 TANGIER TO TIFLIS .
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... seen in its centuries of vicissitude , and on tradition more than on history are those accounts based ; yet it can be stated almost with certainty that in as many centuries Tiflis has seen utter destruction no fewer than eight times ...
... seen in its centuries of vicissitude , and on tradition more than on history are those accounts based ; yet it can be stated almost with certainty that in as many centuries Tiflis has seen utter destruction no fewer than eight times ...
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... seen , in his long white coat with its silver or gold cart- ridge or powder tubes sewn across his chest , with his cap of white lamb's - wool perched jauntily on one side of his head , to say nothing of his personal charm of countenance ...
... seen , in his long white coat with its silver or gold cart- ridge or powder tubes sewn across his chest , with his cap of white lamb's - wool perched jauntily on one side of his head , to say nothing of his personal charm of countenance ...
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